tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221886912876606828.post6609651506113624029..comments2023-06-23T00:44:05.938-07:00Comments on Elided Branches: Scaling in the SmallCamille Fournierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05090020862261633248noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221886912876606828.post-78602265365446955982012-04-30T07:02:25.958-07:002012-04-30T07:02:25.958-07:00Hi Camille,
This was a great post that touches on...Hi Camille,<br /><br />This was a great post that touches on issues that many, many projects face. The slides you referenced are a clear roadmap could probably be used by a lot of teams! I'm sure I'll be referring to them with my team.<br /><br />I also work for a web-based retail business and over here we are slowly coming around to the idea that it may actually be better to do our load testing in prod. Evidently, Etsy does a significant amount of their load testing prod. If you take this approach, instead of spending a lot of money to try to get QA to equal production, you spend a lot of money instrumenting the heck out of prod. If your business is as successful as you hope, you could end up with something like Amazon, where it really is impossible to make QA equal prod. And even if your're not as big as Amazon, the firewalls, routers, load balancers, CDN, etc. may be more expensive to put into QA than the required amount of monitoring in prod.<br /><br />I'd be happy to share more of my thinking on this if you're interested. And b.t.w., we've actually met in person at the hair dryer CTW. Congratulations on your new position!<br /><br />Cheers, RebeccaRebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10180464376037349534noreply@blogger.com